[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Yuval Kogman]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:02:32 +0200, Gaal Yahas wrote:

> Let's put this on a Wiki somewhere. For starters:

This is one of the things that made the toronto YAPC so successful.
Almost everything "non core" was planned, voted, and streamlined on
the wiki:

	* BOFs
	* Dinner Plans
	* Social events
	* Powerplug info
	* Lodging
	* Transportation
	* Visa process

All these things were documented well.

I suggest we have an installation of a Wiki persistent between
events, such that non-changing data would be kept, and per-event
pages would be somewhere inside a nestted namespace.

> * Think about presentation styles you've seen in real life. Optimize for
>   delivery to your live audience, not future readers online. (Personal
>   example: I thought Takahashi style was too videoclippy and
>   populistic. Now that I've seen it in action I'm considering learning
>   to use it myself.)

The premise of Takahashi is to talk to your audience, not to read to
them, and that the slides are basically a way for you to stay in
sync with your plan, and a way for your audience to know which ideas
are more important than others even if you are not a native speaker
(== intonation not as good, dual meaning sentances may be
misinterpreted, etc).

The problem with that approach: It's very hard to reuse the slides
without a speaker.

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